THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
be more to their profit; for, in general, these characters 
are too stubborn for instruction, and proof against hom 
and good counsel. By admittin 
hey would soon 
oO 
oo 
o 
wn 
=i 
abled 
e storm, and would have prevented them 
smu enbloshing beggars, with a ruined eae ber. 
ines. ah fan = offer the following observati ions, in 
answer to ‘‘ A. Brother ee s’’ call for an explanation 
of the apparent prise repanc 
for the imperfect £ aeration of the Gra 
last summer was not mo 
of nshine the fineness of its weather, than it was 
for its prevailing calm: I believe, indeed tt me- 
dia e of h character was an unusual ce 
of prevailing sharp indraft of wet and cold north- 
wester’ —the great bane of our climate the 
bsence, therefore, of the greater pressure at all the feeding 
Ww sone es e of 
cae; i serie in air not ata heated beyond the 
healthy temperature of 80° or 90°,—as indicated by the 
thermometer in the lower part of the se,—but a 
also, which fi stagnation, or very slow circulation 
perty and maturating influenc 
ton, nema that 
aoe in the business. The Gr: 
to the heat of atropical climate 
alf the summer, at the 
20°,— 
way, 
a deautoar 
little work ont 
urgh, by years old, contai 
each and 2 fe 
f 
ripened and ve 
I shou 
ery veak an 
ese 
the bunches and berries, is 
than they are able to ripen.—J’rede 
Lodge 
copies 7 i “Chr 
that some one 
g 
Having lat wii obtained ag loan ofa few 
onicle, I obse 
uation, the front 
eBoy Le aoe with tall trees, so that 
the Vines have no sun till nine in the morni 
h 
a 
5 feet 
regory, Eh lbo sahit, Brain, 
uchsias.—Being a great admirer of the Fuchsia, par- 
tic ‘larly when as aving fre- 
e 
; these I tie up to neat stakes, and in a rt 
time the ey form beaut ee fron four to ai pts high, 
loaded with blos the e time Ic way all 
superfluous shoot ‘whit * are fea t wanted for sakes of rt 
above purposes. Thos gegen m push up i 
numerable santa Jaden. with blossom, which, contrasted 
near as he d judge by vg Aiea some of these pro- 
strate Tanda were about 100 feet lon 
cu eet 
Fouts 
the d : 
during the remaining four years of my occupation. The 
kind planted was the Giant or Irish.—’. Chase, Langley 
Lodge, Lut 
Hor: 5 Chess —These nuts tied very abundant this 
(as a One are, ine, ery) year, but always appeari 
em to lie on the gro 
~] 
5 ae 
e, ho owever, oe no ill effect from oe at 
tity, it did not pr 
te. We 
give the whole a uniform and pleasing bg te otra I may i 
add, also, that they continue much longer in flower, as the | we then gave the whole nut, wh y devoured 
stendards (I mean those tied up to aki were covered | most ravenous I consequently directed the nuts to be 
wit e bloom il 0 the frost ; while a bed | gathered, and pr n this ner for about a fort- 
which I had left to their own free will presented but a ma ight, when it was observed, that, although the animals 
° nts of une dimensions, deformed by vacancies d plenty of grass, the milk to fail; I therefore 
e above plan, if not generally known, I would strongly | discontinued the ice, but neonvenience has re- 
mmend to readers of the Chronicle ; it may be ted from it, as the cows are now in as full milk as ever 
thought troublesome at first, but I assure them it will | I cannot conclude without offering a suggestion, which 
recompense them, I may remark, that it is better not to | might b rther use to those who have dairies, viz., 
peg the shoots down too soon ; if left alone until nee a that when a cow is giving but little milk (ifat this time of 
reach over to cover all the interstices, much trouble the year), she might b n de e [butcher by 
cote and the laterals which arise from them do ‘tit grow | the abo ood, which would, no » be equally 
o high as to tii with those left as standards.—W, | serviceablé for oxen.—_A. P., Cheam. 
P. Robson, Wi ot-Air Stove.—I find I made a mistak e [in ‘the quan- 
& Fuchsia Pulgen in the North of Scotland. —At the | tity of fuel consumed in Mr. Lawes’ stove, and in that 
seat of Sir J. Rose, of Holme, ten miles east of ic devise belonging to the. hot-water. Though the thiliparitive 
several specimens of Fuchsia arg formed objects of | quantities are the same (the hot-water consuming seven 
universal admiration. One of th Pecky hap. ge gress imes as the hot-air—one burning in a wee t 
shoots from the tubers ; c a eo does in 24 hours)—it is the Aof-air that consume: 
high, whilst the lower ones droope om ial aa ae the ushel of cin day and night, whereas the hot- 
ground, thus: formi most beautifal canoes water takes hels of e same ‘ 
bush. e mity of Lach shoot bore a magnificent e mist: y having inquired the consump- 
truss of pendulous tube-like flowers, and c 0 | tion of the latter stove in the 24 and the garden 
loom from the month of June until they fell a sacrifice | having supposed I meant the former, and answered ac- 
to their sharp fros ie beds where the F. Pir S were | cordingl f course, had I given a thought to what a 
eset phan ie yards Spal the w ushel measure really is, J should not have made a blunder 
7 : indies us eat te has ob- | so oby ; 
served, for t a Se st ten years or more, that a great many 
the tiaihy or Turin Poplars have been gradually dying, 
the disease co at the top of the trees. Thi 
r of age, or older. He has 
ts in other ay ae though , less 
1k. | During the las ears he 
nfirmed in the opinion that this description of tree, of 
all ages, is dying almost all over the coun has 
pene this poreuyis and has observed this the 
that in ten more years he fears that thé — 
race mill me - ‘the wane. the two 
arked that in 
being very partial 
NCces ; vot ‘anaes little else eee Oe y 
ost more of his young Bane anted, 
fi 
d 396 cubic the jobeen 
the 1 
20 es ds, of 4 
healt said, that d present 
U 
stove has been in full operation i i 
for three ur years. We do trouble ourselves in 
the least respecting the originality ove, 
fect] ed with its utility; and as the latter is the 
only thing really important to the p ; 
the t of the f uld not be sufficiently edifying 
to make it Ms e 0 sine read 
Tyssen.—[ We quite agree with yo 
To destroy: the Red Spider. iis laving read ia interest 
the vari edies menti cure for the Red 
Spider, “hick so be proves fatal 
elons during the heat of summer, I am 
fa a heeeaitel met 
he 
rent beds; o 
d inside with a mixture comp of sulphur, soft 
soap, tobacco-water, and a little tenacious clay to make it 
the is co: ards repeated 
three different times during th ; na whenever the 
nected; 
lan 
ae f 
but it effe ope | ee the further progre 
spider, and on treated I oe a fair crop  opfealt 
size wie suvthd's oe eon 
ed in the usual m 
